The hair that received all the compliments, was consistently featured in mainstream media – and most importantly – the hair that checked off all the boxes of Eurocentric beauty standards.

These standards equate beauty with whatever the dominant white or Eurocentric ideal of beauty is at a given time. In my lifetime it has been long straight hair, pale or slightly tanned but not too ...

For instance, Eurocentric beauty standards are at play when Black students are forced to cut their hair for school or extracurricular activities (here, here, and here are just three examples of that).

“Eurocentric beauty standards reinforced through popular media also taught them, from an early age, that women with lighter skin tones, and long, straight hair were considered to be more ...

Eurocentric beauty standards are arbitrary and frankly stupid. By allowing them to continue affecting the way we view our university and the people around us, we only perpetuate an idea that serves to ...

Since the earliest race theorists claimed that Eurocentric features were the most attractive, it has been ingrained in us to covet fair skin, blonde hair and blue eyes.

Lupita Nyong'o Slams Grazia for Editing Cover Photos to Fit 'Eurocentric' Beauty Standards. Published Nov 10, 2017 at 7:21 AM EST. ... silky hair were the standards of beauty, ...